SDL_ttf dependency added I don’t take adding dependencies lightly. In my mind, every new dependency is another barrier to building, another possible limitation on various platforms. However, SDL_ttf is likely supported to the same extent that SDL_image and SDL_mixer are.
2011/07/21
Follow-up Thought to Bug Tale #1 One reason this bug was hard to see was the delayed trigger — something happens in one part of the code (potion use restores health), but the immediate effect actually doesn’t take place until
2011/07/20
Bug Tale #1 Today I merged many significant patches added by various contributors. It was time to get back into the swing of things and try out the new code. I was especially excited to try pennomi’s new “monster pack”
2011/07/18
Catching up on GitHub I took a few days away from GitHub and Flare to write part of a book chapter, give a talk, and handle other strange affairs. I plan on doing some catching up tonight. Visual Story I’m
2011/07/13
Flare v0.14.1 Bugfix Release I’ve tagged v0.14.1 over at the Flare GitHub site. It patches a significant memory leak in the v0.14 release. If you maintain Flare in a distro repo, I suggest updating to this version. I will update
2011/07/09
Free Gamer and HD Video qubodup over at Free Gamer posted a update about Flare v0.14. He also recorded this 720p HD video of the game running in Linux. Thanks qubodup!
2011/07/07
Flare v0.14 “Main Menus” Released This release is all about wrapping the core gameplay in main menus, pushing Flare closer to feature-completeness. Now players have four game slots to experiment with different builds. Also, choose your gender and a portrait
2011/07/06
Map Progression I’ve been thinking about story progression in terms of maps and tile sets. There are specific tile sets I want to build. Some just because they sound fun, some because I want to cover various elemental themes (sorta
2011/07/05
Windows Ready Here is a Windows release candidate for v0.14. We have a few more minor data changes but the code is ready for testing. And here’s the OSX release candidate for v0.14 v0.14 Testing The current code is the